• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      A few additional fun points about this:

      • Crab” is Germanic.
      • -ification” itself has its roots in Latin, so even your proposal would be “Latinised”.
      • "carcino- comes from Ancient Greek.
      • True crabs’ scientific name, “Brachyura”, is Neo-Latin derived from Ancient Greek.
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      11 months ago

      I mean most of the European languages do the same with mostly ancient Greek and Latin.